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Title: | Talk and Community: The Place of Reporting in a Life Sciences Laboratory |
Author(s): | Swieringa, Robert Cecil |
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): | Miller, Peggy J. |
Department / Program: | Speech Communication |
Discipline: | Speech Communication |
Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Degree: | Ph.D. |
Genre: | Dissertation |
Subject(s): | Education, Sciences |
Abstract: | This study takes a practice-oriented perspective to investigate the laboratory as a community of practice, focusing upon the "activity" of interaction as the overall unit of analysis. Ethnographic materials (involving observation, interviews, conversations, and activity logs) and discourse analysis techniques (involving audiotaping and transcriptions of meetings) were used to locate and record data within a university entomology laboratory over a two year period. Through triangulation of data, "reporting" is identified as a key discourse activity within the laboratory. As situated communicative practice within the weekly meetings, reporting is found to be compelled discourse through which interactants interactively manage one's ongoing goals and activity while temporally situating that activity within the broader stream of laboratory work. This study provides an example of how engagement in situated discursive activity provides for the coordination of individual lines of progress within the ongoing work of a community. |
Issue Date: | 1999 |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
Description: | 202 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/87564 |
Other Identifier(s): | (MiAaPQ)AAI9921744 |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2015-09-28 |
Date Deposited: | 1999 |
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Graduate Dissertations and Theses at Illinois
Graduate Theses and Dissertations at Illinois